The Meaning of the City is a theological essay by Jacques Ellul which recounts the story of the city in the Bible and seeks to explain the city's biblical significance. Ellul traces the city through Scripture — from the city Cain builds in exile, through Babel and Babylon, to Jerusalem — arguing that the city is at once humanity's attempt to build a world apart from God and the sphere in which God's people are nevertheless called to live faithfully.
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The Meaning of the City is a theological essay by Jacques Ellul which recounts the story of the city in the Bible and seeks to explain the city's biblical significance. Ellul traces the city through Scripture — from the city Cain builds in exile, through Babel and Babylon, to Jerusalem — arguing that the city is at once humanity's attempt to build a world apart from God and the sphere in which God's people are nevertheless called to live faithfully.